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 Post subject: Winter Layup
PostPosted: 23 Aug 2022 15:26 
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Able Bodied Seaman

Joined: 31 Oct 2006 19:43
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I am wondering if anyone has installed a garboard drain in the hull to allow water collected during winter layup to drain out of the bilge?
Really looking to find the lowest point that is accessible.
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 Post subject: Re: Winter Layup
PostPosted: 24 Aug 2022 05:04 
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I have been thinking about doing that for years. A good idea in my opinion. I would just drill a hole from the bottom of the sump at a right angle to the outside. Keep water from being able to accumulate.


 
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 Post subject: Re: Winter Layup
PostPosted: 24 Aug 2022 08:58 
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Joined: 09 Aug 2017 15:35
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Location: Maine/USVI
Good idea but caution might be advised. I'd want to absolutely seal the cavity created through the old laminate with epoxy. You don't want water or any antifreeze you might dump in migrating into the laminate at that point. And is there balsa between the inside and outside?


 
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 Post subject: Re: Winter Layup
PostPosted: 24 Aug 2022 15:09 
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Joined: 14 Jul 2012 20:36
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Location: Norfolk, Va
What about, just pulling a hose off a thru-hull or the centerboard pendent.

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 Post subject: Re: Winter Layup
PostPosted: 25 Aug 2022 07:01 
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Uphill from the bilge. Someone drove a screw into my bilge to hold a bilge pump far enough to cause migration and a "weeping" on the keel below. I cut it out, dried, dried, dried and reglassed then lined the small bilge area with West System thickened with colloidal silica. I might consider a garboard drain if I was going to keep the boat north of the frost line, but she's headed for the Caribbean at the end of hurricane season. I'll focus on keeping water out of the hull instead.


 
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